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Special Needs Teacher – with a focus on development, collaboration, and the student's best interests at the center.

We are looking for an engaged and knowledgeable special needs teacher who wants to make a difference for students, colleagues, and the school's development. In this role, you will have the opportunity to work both closely with students and together with colleagues in a development-oriented and inclusive context.

If this sounds interesting and like a challenge you are eager to accept, then Södra School is the right place for you. You now have the chance to work at a school characterized by well-being among students, parents, and staff.

Södra School is a multicultural school located centrally in Falun with approximately 350 students for the upcoming school year, distributed across seven grades from preschool class to grade 6. The school is situated by Lake Tisken and just a few minutes' walk from the city center.

Our task as staff at the school is to meet every student based on their individual prerequisites. This means supporting all students, whether they need more support in their development or more challenges to reach their best selves.

You now have the chance to work at a school characterized by well-being among students, parents, and staff. We look forward to your application!

Responsibilities

At our school, we work based on our annual plan where early interventions, systematic mapping, and teaching on multiple levels are in focus. Through close collaboration between teachers, student health services, and special educational resources, we create inclusive learning environments and adapt support based on students' needs. As a special needs teacher, you will become an important part of this work and contribute with guidance, mapping, and targeted interventions to strengthen students' development.

You will drive processes and working methods highlighted in research as successful for developing teaching and thereby striving towards the school's goals and helping our students succeed. You are also part of the student health team and responsible for pedagogical mappings and action plans.

Examples of responsibilities, in addition to the above, may include leading the work group together with the school's lead teacher in the school's development work, initiating and leading pedagogical discussions and projects, supporting/coaching other teachers and staff regarding special educational and compensatory teaching, as well as participating in meetings and communicating with external actors, such as social services and child and adolescent psychiatry.

An important part of the job is that you can analyze different students' development opportunities in different learning environments, independently conduct follow-up and evaluation, and lead the development of pedagogical work with the goal of meeting the needs of all children and students. You should take critical and independent initiatives to, analyze, and participate in preventive work and contribute to removing obstacles and difficulties in different learning environments.

Based on the mappings and analyses you conduct, you analyze the results together with educators and student health services.

Qualifications

For the role, the following are required:

• You must be a licensed teacher with a special needs teacher degree and have experience working with special educational interventions.
• You have a strong ability to plan, implement, follow up, and document both your support interventions and students' knowledge development.
• Very good knowledge of Swedish, both spoken and written.
• We assume that you are well-versed in the school's governing documents and can translate these into practice.
• Special needs teacher degree and teaching degree with corresponding license.

Personal Attributes

As a person, we want you to:

• Be able to make independent decisions in daily work with the students' best interests as the starting point.
• Be structured, engaged, and relationship-building.
• Find it easy to collaborate with your colleagues, the school's student health team, and guardians.
• Be confident and have a strong commitment to the students.
• Have a good ability to manage a group of students.
• Be unpretentious and have great patience.
• Enjoy your profession and contribute to a positive climate.

Meritorious Qualifications

• Previous experience working as a special needs teacher.
• Experience in previous teaching of students with special needs and the ability to differentiate teaching and adapt it to individual needs and students' prerequisites, as well as teaching multilingual students.

Terms of Employment

The position is a permanent full-time employment, with a start date of August 10, 2025.

Please attach educational certificates to your application as this will be requested if you become a candidate for the position. Alternatively, certificates can be provided during the interview.

To obtain employment, you must present a certificate of good conduct (extract from the criminal record), which will be requested if employment becomes current. Please order this in connection with the application so that it is available if you become a candidate for the position. You can order the extract directly from the police website.

Other

When you submit your application, you will be asked to answer selection questions based on the requirements for the position. Your answers are an important part of the first selection, so make sure to answer thoroughly and clearly. In your application, you should attach your CV, but you should not send a cover letter – the selection questions replace this.

In connection with this recruitment, we have decided on recruitment channels and therefore decline further offers of competence mediation, advertising, and recruitment assistance. We only accept applications via our recruitment system in accordance with GDPR. If you have problems submitting your application, you are welcome to contact [email protected]